Quotes About Mindset

If the thought of lack -- whether it be money, recognition, or love -- has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got.

The fact is: Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. You are withholding it because deep down you think you are small and that you have nothing to give.

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

but life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it. You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't.

It was his misfortune to be in love with his wife; and this state of mind (in itself sufficiently ridiculous) and the shifts and compromises to which it reduced him, were a source of endless amusement to the humorists.

MARTIN (Serious) Am I too young for Alzheimer's? STEVIE Probably. Isn't it nice to be too young for something?

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

More and more, I think you should have no expectations and do everything for its own sake. That way you won't be hit in the head quite so frequently.

propio del prejuicio es que aquel que lo tiene no es consciente de ello en absoluto.

But that's what the English mean, isn't it, when they say, He was very philosophical about it? They mean that someone stopped thinking about something.

Resentment used to be something folks wanted to get rid of, now they water it and put it on a windowsill, like a favourite pot plant.

Joy is not the opposite of depression. It is deeper than depression. Therefore, you can experience both. Depression is the relentless rain. Joy is the rock. Whether depression is present or not, you can stand on joy.

Joy is not the opposite of depression. It is deeper than depression. Therefore, you can experience both. Depression is the relentless rain. Joy is the rock. Whether depression is present or not, you can stand on joy. Does

Anger takes everything personally, as if everything is an intentional act to make your life miserable.

A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

I quite cold-bloodedly reached the conclusion that I would never be able to accomplish anything useful so long as I was worried.

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.